The fans on my Clevo W230ST haven't stopped blowing since I installed Mint. I thought the video card drivers might be at fault so I tried:

sudo apt-get install nvidia-current
sudo nvidia-xconfig

On restart, the resolution was set to 640x480 and I haven't been able to figure out how to change it back. The display settings don't have any any other selectable options and nothing else I've done (purging/reinstalling nvidia programs, deleting xorg.conf, changing the refresh rate in xorg.conf, and re-installing xserver-xorg.

I don't think drivers are actually installed. Driver Manager says there aren't any proprietary drivers and nvidia-settings tells me to "run nvidia-xconfig as root" even after I've just done so.

Thanks for the suggestion. I don't think bumblebee managed to install itself correctly either, when I try to run a program with it I get [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0
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Adam PearceFeb 10 '14 at 14:46